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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

A is for Abracadabra and the Insecure Writer's Support Group-April 2015

It's the first Wednesday of the month! Let's convene a brief meeting of the Insecure Writer's Support Group. We are all grateful for our brave Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh, and I'd like to wish him good luck. He has an especially busy month ahead of him. Hopefully his loyal clones don't freak out and run for the hills.

I'm not all that insecure this month. I just started a new novel. If anything, I just hope I can get the ideas in my head onto the paper. It sounds like a basic enough process, sure, but it's far from simple. Wish me luck!

Now let's move on to the next item of business, and it's an important one!

It's that time of year again! Let's embark on the adventure that is the April A to Z Challenge!

Today I have a Choose Your Own Adventure story for you. Don't worry, it's a short one. Any variation of the story will come it at the length of a normal flash fiction piece. I'm not that mean. It is inspired by the word of the day.

Today's word: ABRACADABRA

Enjoy!

Abracadabra

The genie doesn’t
look at all like children’s stories have trained you to expect. She’s wearing a plain black business suit,
and a briefcase is open on the desk before her.

As she shuffles
through a stack of papers, you marvel at the number of forms a genie must have
on hand. Somehow you never imagined
there would be paperwork involved in a genie’s line of work.

“Ah, here it is,”
she says lightly. “A request for the
regeneration of a missing limb. For the
record, which limb are you missing?”

You stare back at
her, your mouth open in disbelief. “I
would have thought it was obvious,” you growl.

Starting a new story is always fun. But it's sometimes sad that not everything you first wrote stays until the end (though sometimes it's necessary to cut it). And I love you Abracadabra story...I'm missing an arm, smh.

The best thing about writing is you can make corrections before anyone see's them. When you talk to some one you can't stop and say delete, delete, and start over. I’m also doing the A to Z challenge, Organize Home Life on http://AMomsPointOfView.com